Zoology - Ornithology Holub and Aug. von Pelzeln, Emil Contributions to the ornithology of South Africa. With special consideration of the species collected by Dr Holub on his South African travels and exhibited in the Pavillon des Amateurs in Vienna. With 1 chromolithographed folded map. Map, 3 chromolithogr. plates, 32 zincographs on 2 plates and 61 wood engravings on 14 plates and in the text. Vienna, Hölder, 1882. 384 (2, errata) p. Gr.-8°. New cloth, the original cloth cover with illustrated gilt and black embossed cover and title label. First edition, copy with autograph dedication of the author. Dedication of the author. - Zimmer, J. T. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, 306 - First edition of the meritorious monograph on the birds of southern Africa by the prolific African explorer Emil Holub and his travelling companion August von Pelzeln. - "A discussion, in systematic order, of the birds secured or observed in southern Africa by Emil Holub ... Two species are described as new." (Zimmer) - Holub's routes are marked on the map in the appendix. - The other illustrations show studies on anatomy, life form and the like, the zincographs show the tongues of 30 bird species. - Dedication copy for Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933), U.S. economist, with a six-line dedication by Holub on the recto title page: "Hon. Professor President Henry Farnam by Yale University, New Haven, with the ... profound respect. Dr Emil Holub, Vienna the 8th of July 1895". - Title page with owner's stamp, plate 1 backed at margins, book block browned. - With: Nils Gyldenstolpe. Birds. (= Zoological results of the Swedish Expedition to Central Africa 1921. Vertebrata I.) With 1 chromolithogr. folded. Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksells, 1924. 326 pp. Gr.-8. HLwd. d. Zt. w. gold embossed RTit., marb. Covers and speckled boards. Cut. - First edition. - Anker, J. Bird Books and Bird Art, p. 70 ("Nearly 1700 birds were collected, and these were dealt with in a large treatise ...") - Provenance: Finn Salomonsen, with his ex-libris on the front cover. - Yngve Sjöstedt. On the ornithology of Cameroon together with some information on the mammals of the country. With 10 chromolithogr. plates (= Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, NF, vol. 27, no. 1) Stockholm, Selbstvlg. d. Akad., 1895. 120 pp. Gr.-4°. New half-wedge binding with gilt stamped title and marbled boards. First separate edition. - Anker 472. "About 400 specimens belonging to 176 species were collected, 56 of these species proved to be new to the Cameroons, and six new to science." - M. J. Nicoll. Handlist of the Birds of Egypt. With 1 folded. Cart in colour print and 117, of which 26 col. Bird illustrations on 31 coloured plate pages. Cairo, Government Press, 1919. XII, 119 (1) p. 8°. OHLn. w. DTit. - First edition. Edges of binding somewhat bumped, paper browned, otherwise clean. Zoology. - Ornithology. - With 1 chromolithographed folding map, 3 chromolithographed plates, 32 zinc engravings on 2 plates as well as 61 wood engravings on 14 plates and in the text. - First edition, copy inscribed by the author. - First edition of this commendable monograph on the birds of southern Africa by the prolific researcher Emil Holub and his travelling companion August von Pelzeln. - 'A discussion, in systematic order, of the birds secured or observed in southern Africa by Emil Holub ... Two species are described as new.' (Zimmer) - Holub's routes are marked on the map. The illustrations show studies on anatomy, life form and the like, the zincographs show the tongues of 30 bird species. - Inscribed by the author for Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933), economist from the U.S., with a six-line dedication by Holub on the recto title page: 'Hon. Professor President Henry Farnam by Yale University, New Haven, with the ... profound respect. Dr Emil Holub, Vienna the 8th of July 1895'. - Title page with owner's stamp, plate 1 backed at margins, book block browned. - Enclosed: 3 more illustrated treatises on African birds, further details please see above. This lot is taxed. A premium of 24.95% will be added to the hammer price and 7% (books, art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, silkscreens, offset prints, photographs) to the final invoice amount in the European Union. This work is subject to the regular margin scheme. There is a 24.95% buyer's premium on the hammer price and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offsetprints and Photographs) on the final invoice amount in the European Union.